St John’s Diamond Creek Talks

Hard Hearts || The Kingdom of Heaven || Matthew 13:1-23

Jesus loved to talk in parabales. Using fictional stories to demonstrate real truths. This series will explore a few of these parables, with Kirk starting with the parable of the weeds.
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Where is God in the Mundane? || God in the Everyday || Colossians 1:9-14

In today’s talk, we’re wrapping up our God in the Everyday series, and through it, we’ll be exploring what actually takes up the vast majority of our every-day – the mundane ebb and flow of our lives. Where is God when we’re on autopilot? By the end of this service, I hope you’ll be equipped to think about your routine activities, and how you might leverage your routines to help you to show more thankfulness, to ground your days in Jesus, and to ultimately love God more.
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What Does God Say About The Environment? || God in the Everyday || Genesis 1:27-31

Going through our daily lives, as we work, study, rest, as we disagree and face conflicts, as we go through hard times, as we interact with our natural world – God is with us in all these situations.
Tim continues our series by asking what God says about His creation, and how we should care for it.
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Where is God in Conflict? || God in the Everyday || Romans 14

Going through our daily lives, as we work, study, rest, as we disagree and face conflicts, as we go through hard times, as we interact with our natural world – God is with us in all these situations. Kirk continues our “God in the Everyday” series.
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Where is God in Work & Study? || God in the Everyday || Genesis 2:4-15

Going through our daily lives, as we work, study, rest, as we disagree and face conflicts, as we go through hard times, as we interact with our natural world – God is with us in all these situations. We're continuing our “God in the Everyday” series.
The creation story reveals God as someone who creates and puts energy and time into his creation. Work isn't just paid - it's any purposeful activity involving mental, emotional or physical energy. Whether it's paid work or not is beside the point. God is our ultimate boss, and we can use the jobs that we do – paid and unpaid – to be generous towards others, redeeming work through good use of power. Work is important and good- but also broken and corrupted.
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Where is God in Suffering? || God in the Everyday || Romans 8:18-30

Going through our daily lives, as we work, study, rest, as we disagree and face conflicts, as we go through hard times, as we interact with our natural world – God is with us in all these situations. Today we begin a new series – “God in the everyday”. We’ll be spending the next five weeks exploring how God is present in our lives through every season, and how following Jesus isn’t isolated to being at church on Sundays. How we live and look at our world needs to be done through the lens of Jesus’s life, death and resurrection.
Today Joel begins our series looking at how God is with us through the hardest of times- and why God even lets suffering in our world continue.
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Don’t stop Forgiving || Jesus and Relationships || Matthew 18:21-35

As Christians, we believe that God designed us to live a certain way – primarily living to love God, and love other people. Believe it or not though, we don’t always do that very well. The core message of Christianity though, is that God – through the life death and resurrection of Jesus – has forgiven us. So as forgiven people, we should be extending that gift of forgiveness.
Today, Kirk continues our series on Jesus and Relationships, and the extraordinary forgiveness that we’ve received, as well as the extraordinary call to extend that grace to others.
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Is there something in my teeth? || Jesus and Relationships || Matthew 18:15-20

You know in soppy rom-coms, and so-bad-they’re-good dramas, when the two main characters have an argument based on a misunderstanding? Like, the boyfriend sees his girlfriend hugging another guy, and gets really jealous and upset, only to find out much later that it was her brother? Maybe, like me, you yell at your TV at that point – JUST TALK TO THEM! So much drama and conflict, just because you couldn’t tell them that you’re upset, or because you’ve misinterpreted something.
 
Well Jesus’ teaching in this passage from Matthew 18 is a good lesson not just for writers of dodgy movies, but for all of us when we deal with conflict and sin.
 
Tim will unpack the passage for us, as we read from Matthew, chapter 18.

Childlike Faith || Jesus & Relationships || Matthew 18:1-14

Today we start a new series of talks, with our Associate Minister Joel kicking us off. We’ll be spending the next four weeks thinking about Jesus and Relationships. Joel today starts by asking the question “what is greatness”? In our bible reading that Karen is about to bring us, we see Jesus flip expectations of the answer to this question, throwing out what we might traditionally consider to be great.
If you responded as Joel prayed for the first time, that is amazing news. God’s word says that there is a massive celebration in heaven when that happens. Please tell someone that you’ve made that decision to trust Jesus with your stumbling blocks. Email me at andy@stjohnsdc.org.au, or reach out through our website. Myself or the other members of our staff team would love to help you take these next steps.

The Christian Dream || Wei Han Kuan || Revelation 7:9-16

What’s the end of the Christian story? That’s what Wei Han is taking a look at today, as we see in the visions of the book of Revelation.
The great Australian dream is so different to the image we see in Revelation. The Christian Dream makes a huge difference in how we live our lives, living in the hope of Jesus Christ, and waiting the day when we sing those two songs of salvation and worship.
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